Re: Backing out changes: the prefered method?

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 11:10:38AM -0800, Sean Russell wrote:
 
> An later, Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> wrote:
> > But to answer your question: once we fix this use-case, yes, your
> > algorithm is the right way to back out changes to a file. You would
> > view the log for the *one* file, determine that you want to backdate
> > the file to revision N, and then do something like:
> >
> > svn diff -r N -r HEAD <filename> | patch
> > svn commit
>
> Super, thanks. Could you not also do:
>
> rm <filename>
> svn up -r N <filename>

i suspect that will just tell you that your working copy is out of
date and you need to update before you can commit. but i'm not in
front of a machine with svn on it, so i can't check.

-garrett

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